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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By : Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko
Book Image

Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By: Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko

Overview of this book

Kotlin is an object-oriented programming language. The book is based on the latest version of Kotlin. The book provides you with a thorough understanding of programming concepts, object-oriented programming techniques, and design patterns. It includes numerous examples, explanation of concepts and keynotes. Where possible, examples and programming exercises are included. The main purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive coverage of Kotlin features such as classes, data classes, and inheritance. It also provides a good understanding of design pattern and how Kotlin syntax works with object-oriented techniques. You will also gain familiarity with syntax in this book by writing labeled for loop and when as an expression. An introduction to the advanced concepts such as sealed classes and package level functions and coroutines is provided and we will also learn how these concepts can make the software development easy. Supported libraries for serialization, regular expression and testing are also covered in this book. By the end of the book, you would have learnt building robust and maintainable software with object oriented design patterns in Kotlin.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Overriding

Inheritance is a method in which a child class can access all the functions and properties of its parent class. What if, however, the derived class wants its own specific implantation of the function that is already provided by the derived class? To understand this problem, let's take a simple example of a Person class with two properties, name and age, and a function, displayInfo():

open class Person(pName: String, pAge: Int) {
var name = pName
var age = pAge

fun displayInfo(){
println("My name is $name, I am $age old. ")
}
}

Create another class called Student with some extra properties (id, education, and institute name) and extend it with the Person class:

class Student(name: String, age: Int, id : Int, education : String, institution : String) : Person(name , age ) {
var studentID = id
val institutionName = institution...